1740. THE LADIES DISPENSATORY: or, Every Woman her own Physician. Treating of the Natures, Causes, and various Symptoms of all the Diseases, Infirmities, and Disorders, natural or contracted, that most particularly affect the Fair Sex, in all their different Situations of Life, as Maids, Married Women, and Widows. London: James... More

1795. PHARMACOPEIA NOSOCOMII REGII EDINBURGENSIS [The Medications used in the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary]. Edinburgh, 1795. 12mo. vi,63pp. This pharmacopeia is divided into three parts: a list of "simples" (single substances, mostly herbs), a list of mixed medications with recipes, and dosage ("posologia") instructions. The introduction gives weights, and cautions the... More

1811. ABERNETHY, John. SURGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORIGIN AND TREATMENT OF LOCAL DISEASES; AND ON ANEURISMS. ON DISEASES RESEMBLING SYPHILIS; AND ON DISEASES OF THE URETHRA. Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson; Fry and Kammerer, Printer, 1811. Offered with: SURGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE INJURIES OF THE HEAD; AND ON MISCELLANEOUS... More

1809. BY AND EARLY PROPONENT OF FOOD SAFETY AND CONSUMER AWARENESS ACCUM, Frederick. A PRACTICAL ESSAY ON THE ANALYSIS OF MINERALS, exemplifying the best methods of analysing ores, earths, stones, inflammable fossils, and mineral substances in general. Philadelphia: Published by Kimber & Conrad, ... , and Benjamin & Thomas Kite... More

1808. ACCUM, Frederick. SYSTEM OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY Two Volumes, with Plates. From the Improved London Edition. Philadelphia, Kimber and Conrad, 1808. Octavo. Two volumes. xx,393pp.; xx,431[7}pp. +VIIff. First American edition. Contains seven engraved plates. First published in 1803, Accum'swas one of the earliest chemical texts to be based... More

1906. ADAMS, Samuel Hopkins. GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD: ARTICLES ON THE NOSTRUM EVIL AND QUACKS, IN TWO SERIES REPRINTED FROM COLLIER'S WEEKLY. P. F. Collier & Son., 1906. First Monograph Edition. Octavo 146p. Bound in red cloth with printed front board and hand lettered spine. Includes a fold-out reproduction of newspaper... More

1888. AGASSIZ, Alexander. THREE CRUISES OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY STEAMER "BLAKE" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, From 1877 to 1880. Two volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888. xxii +... More

1866. AGASSIZ, Louis. THE STRUCTURE OF ANIMAL LIFE: SIX LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1862. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1866. Volume 4 of the "[Augustus] Graham Lectures; On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in His Works," published... More

1733. ALLYNE, JAMES. NEW ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN FOUR PARTS. London: Printed for Tho. Astley at the Rose, and S. Austen at the Angel and Bible, both in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1733. First edition. 8vo., xiv + [2] + 646 + [56] + [2] pp. Title continued: "Containing, I. a more... More

1910. American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIRST (- SIXTH) ANNUAL MEETING. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1910. Vols. 2-6 published at Baltimore: Franklin Printing Co., 1912-1916. Six octavo volumes, uniformly bound in brown paper wrappers with title printed in black on spine and front... More

1855. [AMERICAN CHEMICAL INSTITUTE]. POSITIVE MEDICAL AGENTS: Being a Treatise on the New Alkaloid, Resinoid and Concentrated Preparations of Indigenous and Foreign Medical Plants. New York: Charles B. Norton, 1855. 8vo. 304pp. Brown cloth, blindstamped to front and back and stamped in gilt to spine. Ex-library with stamps to front... More

1963. American Surgical Association. REGISTRATION BOOK of the American Surgical Association. A facsimile reproduction of the original, reproducing the signatures of those who orgnized the Association, and signatures of those who attended each meeting between 1882 and 1960, published for the Fellows of the Association by J. B. Lippincott Company... More

1732. ARBUTHNOT, John. AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE NATURE OF ALIMENTS, AND THE CHOICE OF THEM, ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT CONSTITUTIONS OF HUMAN BODIES. IN WHICH THE DIFFERENT EFFECTS, ADVANTAGES, AND DISADVANTAGES OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE DIETS, ARE EXPLAIN'D...TO WHICH ARE ADDED, PRACTICAL RULES OF DIET IN THE VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONS AND... More